What was the last movie you saw?

I just watched Train-Man (Densha otoko). It was so charming and funny. I recommend it to anyone who likes lighthearted films.

A man who is more at ease with folks in chat rooms than real people sticks up for a girl on a train. She asks for his number and he turns to his chat room friends for advice. They tell him how to dress, what to say, where to eat...to woo the girl.
 
I,Robot,on the idiot box.
Commercial television,so messed up by just about 5 commercial breaks.
The movie "was brought to me by Sony",which was nice of them.
I will buy a s""t load of their stuff today.Whoo_hey marketing works!
The movie showed the typical Hollywood restraint with special effects,
and insted showed in full the philosophical,ethical,sociological and even theological implications of sentient humanoid robots.
Oops,am I confusing this one with the movie I would have made?
Sorry!
(by the way,I have changed my avatar from the slightly solemn and beautiful Richard Powers painting to a cartoon favourite)
 
ravenus said:
Saw Monster House, a CG animated flick about kids battling a neighborhood house which is haunted.

Pixar quality animation aside, the film has more in common with 80's popcorn horror flicks like Nightmare on Elm Street and Fright Night, than Pixar's movies; you know, the ones where the cops are lazy assholes, babysitters try to make out with their punk rocker boyfriends and nobody, including their parents, (or rather, especially their parents) believes the teens when they try to tell them about the MONSTER.

This being a PG rated movie (still bold for an animated flick), there's no overt gore/nudity and the closest you get to morbidity is an already buried corpse (there's a joke in there somewhere :D), but the movie still has some gripping moments, the major plot twist is more affecting than the million odd "let's think of some crap to sell these toys" storylines normally used for the Dreamworks cartoon flicks, and the climax where the haunted house, taking inspiration from Stephen King's Christine, decides to take matters in its own hands is surprisingly intense given the normal audience demographic of these films...I suspect a fair number of kids who saw this film had some bad dreams later.
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Just watched this tonight, and I'd have to agree. Much better than your standard kids fare, and genuinely frightening in some places, especially if you were twelve. That was the good thing about it - it doesn't treat its audience like morons, which is a nice change. I thought it had shades of Tim Burton, which is never a bad thing. Very enjoyable.
 
Dave said:
It has a great cast - Stephen Merchant is also in it. Also Billie Whitelaw and Edward Woodward. Peter Jackson is uncredited, dressed as Santa!

But that is precisely why I expected it to be better than it was.

No idea what Mr Ross said, he mostly talks................ anyway!

Recently, on the box, I saw Amelie, and Nirvana and Metropolis.
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I loved SM as Ricky Gervais' hopeless manager,sometimes he even surpassed Ricky.Any fans of the Office and Extras out there?.Who remembers "Big Train",by the way>
U're thoughts on "Amelie".?
I loved it,quintessentially French,zany,unpredictable,a good happy ending
 
Due to a discussion elsewhere, and as my roommate had -- not knowing much beyond a brief description from elsewhere -- rented it; I tried watching Idiocracy. Bad move. Not only is this a blatant rip-off of Kornbluth's "The Marching Morons", but it's so bad that his revenant should climb up out of his grave and strangle the lot of 'em.....:mad: I made it a total of 32 minutes before my gorge became too buoyant.....
 
Nope. None. You can look through the entire credits list at imdb, for that matter. But reviewers have brought up the connection in several places.

On this one, I feel about it the way I did about that new version of The Time Machine... Wells should have climbed up and shredded his descendant into kibbles for that one. These things are abominations. I've been hearing things about The Last Mimzy, which is based on "Mimsy Were the Borogoves" by Kuttner and Moore... and it sounds as if that one, too, went against the story... making it have a sweetness-and-light ending and completely altering one of the main themes of the tale in the process... and thereby robbing it of all its poignancy and pathos -- and, dammit! that's a beautiful and painful story, on a very common human fear... and one that's especially relevant for our time, I'd say.

I agree with all those who say that there's no reason on earth why fantastic literature made into films can't be as strong, as emotionally-involving, and as intelligent and relevant as any other type of film, other than the idiots behind the things simply don't have a clue.....
 
On DVD over the weekend;

Eragon; OK dragon movie, worth renting. (I bought it as I collect things draconic).

Blood Diamond; modern era African conflict, good adventure story, occasionally bloody. (nominated for 5 academy awards). Worth buying.

The Marine; medium budget story about an ex super Marine who chases down some criminal types. Worth renting, lots of shooting, chasing and some explosions.

Enjoy!
 
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But not historically accurate. Bah! Since when has that stopped me? My friend said it was good as well.

Has anyone seen the Bean Holiday movie? I want to know whether it's decent enough to watch.
 
On DVD, it was Sentinel-(Why I don't really know)
On TV, it was the Bourne Identity, haven't read the book so Matt Damons fine by me!
At the cinema, it was ages ago, and Da Vinci Code, :mad: which is the first film in a cinema I have ever wanted to leave before the end. The Hair!:confused:
 
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